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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 19 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Kings 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/18.htm" title="2 Kings 18">◄</a> 2 Kings 19 <a href="../2_kings/20.htm" title="2 Kings 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_kings/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Hezekiah Seeks the LORD’s Help</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap and went into the Temple of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, all dressed in burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But perhaps the LORD your God has heard the Assyrian chief of staff,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> sent by the king to defy the living God, and will punish him for his words. Oh, pray for those of us who are left!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>After King Hezekiah’s officials delivered the king’s message to Isaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>the prophet replied, “Say to your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian king’s messengers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Listen! I myself will move against him,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Meanwhile, the Assyrian chief of staff left Jerusalem and went to consult the king of Assyria, who had left Lachish and was attacking Libnah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Soon afterward King Sennacherib received word that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> was leading an army to fight against him. Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah in Jerusalem with this message:</p><p class="b"/><p class="pmo"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. Don’t let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done wherever they have gone. They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way! Why should you be any different? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the LORD’s Temple and spread it out before the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Bend down, O LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, O LORD, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.”</p><p class="hdg">Isaiah Predicts Judah’s Deliverance</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer about King Sennacherib of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the LORD has spoken this word against him:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“The virgin daughter of Zion</p><p class="line2">despises you and laughs at you.</p><p class="line1">The daughter of Jerusalem</p><p class="line2">shakes her head in derision as you flee.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Whom have you been defying and ridiculing?</p><p class="line2">Against whom did you raise your voice?</p><p class="line1">At whom did you look with such haughty eyes?</p><p class="line2">It was the Holy One of Israel!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>By your messengers you have defied the Lord.</p><p class="line2">You have said, ‘With my many chariots</p><p class="line1">I have conquered the highest mountains—</p><p class="line2">yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon.</p><p class="line1">I have cut down its tallest cedars</p><p class="line2">and its finest cypress trees.</p><p class="line1">I have reached its farthest corners</p><p class="line2">and explored its deepest forests.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I have dug wells in many foreign lands</p><p class="line2">and refreshed myself with their water.</p><p class="line1">With the sole of my foot</p><p class="line2">I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“But have you not heard?</p><p class="line2">I decided this long ago.</p><p class="line1">Long ago I planned it,</p><p class="line2">and now I am making it happen.</p><p class="line1">I planned for you to crush fortified cities</p><p class="line2">into heaps of rubble.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>That is why their people have so little power</p><p class="line2">and are so frightened and confused.</p><p class="line1">They are as weak as grass,</p><p class="line2">as easily trampled as tender green shoots.</p><p class="line1">They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,</p><p class="line2">scorched before it can grow lush and tall.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“But I know you well—</p><p class="line2">where you stay</p><p class="line1">and when you come and go.</p><p class="line2">I know the way you have raged against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And because of your raging against me</p><p class="line2">and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself,</p><p class="line1">I will put my hook in your nose</p><p class="line2">and my bit in your mouth.</p><p class="line1">I will make you return</p><p class="line2">by the same road on which you came.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“This year you will eat only what grows up by itself,</p><p class="line2">and next year you will eat what springs up from that.</p><p class="line1">But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them;</p><p class="line2">you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And you who are left in Judah,</p><p class="line2">who have escaped the ravages of the siege,</p><p class="line1">will put roots down in your own soil</p><p class="line2">and will grow up and flourish.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">a group of survivors from Mount Zion.</p><p class="line1">The passionate commitment of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="line2">will make this happen!</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“And this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“His armies will not enter Jerusalem.</p><p class="line2">They will not even shoot an arrow at it.</p><p class="line1">They will not march outside its gates with their shields</p><p class="line2">nor build banks of earth against its walls.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The king will return to his own country</p><p class="line2">by the same road on which he came.</p><p class="line1">He will not enter this city,</p><p class="line2">says the LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David,</p><p class="line2">I will defend this city and protect it.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>That night the angel of the LORD went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the rabshakeh;</span><span class="ft"> also in 19:8.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">I will put a spirit in him.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">of Cush.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:31 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions, Latin Vulgate, and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text (see also Isa 37:32); the other alternate reads </span><span class="it">the </span><span class="sc"><span class="it">Lord</span></span><span class="it">.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:35 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">When they.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text (see also Isa 37:38); the other alternate reading lacks </span><span class="it">his sons.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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